Pastor Judah Smith showed up at an evangelical community north of Los Angeles for the taping of Sunday’s episode of “Beyond A.D.” to talk about God, but first he had to also talk to me about football. The April 26 installment of the Web companion series to NBC’s “A.D.: The Bible Continues” — new episodes are available Sundays at 9 a.m. ET (click here to find at it NBC.com) — features Australian evangelist Christine Caine; Smith, who runs The City Church in Seattle, Washington; and... Read more
As recounted at her Twitter account, Kim Kardashian (who often adds in her married name, West), her sister Khloe, daughter North and husband Kanye West visited her ancestral homeland of Armenia, where she marked the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide and met with Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan. In an essay for TIME Magazine, she wrote: My great-great-grandparents came from Armenia to Los Angeles in 1914, right before the genocide happened. We have no existing family left in Armenia. Had they... Read more
Mainstream-media movie reviewers don’t think much of “Little Boy,” from executive producers Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and Eduardo Verastegui, which releases today in theaters nationwide. “Little Boy is a shockingly miscalculated World War II fable” — The A/V Club. Well, it has to be seen to be believed, frankly. Giving the title a whole new meaning, one that World War II buffs should have no trouble guessing, the moment is almost too tasteless for words. (We’re in Extremely Loud And Incredibly... Read more
We never know what is in the heart of another person, even if we saw them every week in our living room. Never forget that TV is not reality, and that life after TV — especially for child actors — can take strange and tragic turns. On CBS’ long-running sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Sawyer Sweeten and his brother Sullivan played Geoffrey and Michael Barone,the twin sons of Long Island, N.Y., sportswriter Raymond Barone (Ray Romano) and his wife, Debra (Patricia Heaton).... Read more
The band’s back together on the F/V Northwestern on Discovery’s reality hit “Deadliest Catch,” currently airing its 11th season on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET. After an ultimately unsuccessful sojourn on the F/V Kiska Sea last year, deckhand Jake Anderson is back on the boat where he was a greenhorn, under his mentor, Capt. Sig Hansen. Although the show is only a couple of weeks into the new season, the actual fishing season has been over for months, and now the... Read more
The debate over how TV does or doesn’t reflect reality will never end, mostly because there’s no easy answer. Sometimes TV is ahead of society — especially when show creators have an agenda to push — sometimes, it’s way behind, and sometimes it appears to exist in alternate universe. This is especially noticeable in crime dramas, which, depending on the genre, can be gritty and torn from the headlines, or escapist fantasy. All crime dramas have one thing in common... Read more
As pointed out in a recent story about Nick Searcy, late of FX’s drama “Justified,” in the U.K. Telegraph, the veteran actor is no stranger to controversy. One might even say, he’s steady-dated controversy for years, particularly on Twitter, where the bio reads: Peabody Award-Winning International Film and Television Star. All new followers must proceed directly to Acting School with Nick Searcy before addressing me. Said the Telegraph: Prompted by the 2012 death of conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart, Searcy found himself... Read more
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad. Psalms: 118 I grew up in a town surrounded by dairy farms, so pastures full of cows were a daily sight. Past a certain age, dairy cows are not especially rambunctious creatures. But given a reason for joy, they can kick up their heels with the best of them. As reported by NPR, on a Sunday each mid-April, Danes gather near 75 organic dairy farms... Read more
Few science-fiction movies — indeed, few action movies — these days make room for God, for traditional marriage and for explicit prayer. But all three of these were front and center in the 1996 blockbuster hit “Independence Day.” Directed by Roland Emmerich (“The Patriot,” “2012,” “The Day After Tomorrow”), and produced and written by Dean Devlin (“Stargate,” “Leverage,” “The Librarians”) — the son of a Jewish father and a Filipina mother — the film centers on an unlikely pair of... Read more
In an earlier interview I did with NBC’s “A.D.: The Bible Continues” star Juan Pablo Di Pace, who plays Jesus, the actor spoke about his mother: Di Pace’s mother is religious painter Marta Maineri, who named her third son after Pope John Paul II. “She came to the shoot,” said Di Pace. “She was at the Crucifixion, my own mother. I called her before, and I said, ‘I was auditioning for a part, auditioning for Jesus.’ She said, ‘Oh, Juan... Read more
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